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ITT we discuss paintings and books related.

The Birth of Venus, one of the most recognized paintings by Botticelli, depicts Venus, the goddess of love, born out of a seashell, a fully mature woman. It is worthy to note that in classical times, the seashell was the symbol for the female genitalia, and as such, Botticelli was artfully referencing the goddess’s actual birth. Although a mythical figure, there is no exact literary context depicting the scene painted by Botticelli, leading to much speculation. As to its commission, the painting was solicited by a member of the Medici family, which is thought wanted to have a reproduction of an earlier work by a different artist, which had been lost after the rule of Nero.

>> No.7298524

>>7298512

You can see her nipple!

>> No.7298525
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>tfw find it hard to connect with visual art

Maybe it's because there's little imagination involved?

I can be awed by art and find it amazing, but it doesn't really make me feel too much like music and literature does.

>> No.7298556

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhfFBbVtFg

Get educated faggots

>> No.7298584

>>7298525

>images don't stimulate his imagination

literally autism

>> No.7298620

>>7298524
At least his nipple is discretely covered by a flower, otherwise it would be scandalous.

>> No.7298655

>tfw noticed Venus' fucked up left arm and can't unsee it

>> No.7298660

>>7298584
No it isn't. I'm autistic and I make stories out of images.

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>>7298660
>I'm autistic

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>>7298660
Which story do imagine when looking at this picture?

>> No.7298702

>>7298693

The night of his conception.

>> No.7298704

My tumblr where i reblog mostly beautiful art i love

http://incorruptableleaf.tumblr.com/

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>>7298512
Honestly, I'm kind of in love with this painting right now, mostly due to Aby Warburg's obsession with the nymph figures in it.

I can't stress how good Didi-Hubermann's book about him is, y'all niggas with even a passing interest on visual art should drop that Gombrich bs and get aquainted with my man Aby.

Also, he was /lit/ as fuck, his library was on the 65k volumes (all read) when he died, and he prefered to stay at his home studying and travelling with his qtpt painter wife than become heir to one of the biggest banks in Europe.

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Basquiat was quite incredible.
Interestingly, this work is called "Portrait of The Artist as A Young Derilict", and it seems like Basquiat quotes Joyce's division of life into 3 phases.

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>>7298512
I only time I ever need to catch my breath and go WOAH, HOLY SHIT is at cityscapes/city's at night like pic related. I don't know why pictures like these make me feel so melancholic.

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Posting some here

Including movie and music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rzuXTAkZoI

>> No.7298779

>>7298756
Looks like Rasputin

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>>7298771
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLDHr5r0iIY

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>>7298771
>>7298787
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5amEt8d6Qk0

>> No.7298998

>>7298765
you should watch Enter The Void. prettiest movie i've ever seen.

>> No.7299186

>>7298693
>>7298512
how's art 101 class going?

>> No.7299204

>>7299186
I dropped out, they told me anime wasn't art.

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>>7299246

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>>7299251

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>>7299256

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>>7299186
Thank you for asking, but I'm not taking art classes. I'm only reading "History of Modern Art" by HH Arnason. :)

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>>7299262

>> No.7299275

>>7299251
>>7299256
>>7299262
5deep7me

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>>7299274

>> No.7299288

>>7299275
consider suicide

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>>7299288
no u

>> No.7299353

>>7299251 >>7299256 >>7299262 >>7299274 >>7299279
Self-masturbatory garbage. Zero emotion or purpose. Hate it.

>>7299246
This one is a whole lot better imo.

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>>7299353
>purpose
>in art

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>>7298525
art is much, much more impressive in real life and with the right lighting.

I saw a huge reproduction of this in an upstairs room of a bar and it was gorgeous.

>> No.7299367

>>7299359
>purpose
>in life

The purpose of art is to evoke emotion or thought within the viewer. Three overlapping squares does nothing. "Minimalist" artists and Jackson Pollack are all hacks.

>> No.7299370

>>7299367
>implying the purpose of art is to evoke emotion or thoughts
>implying Jackson Pollock doesn't evoke emotion

>> No.7299375

>>7299367
how do you even become this retarded?

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>>7299366
This pretty much.

Standing in front of a self portrait is kinda eerie. He's always looking at you and not just staring but looking apathetic or contempt, especially the later pieces of him.

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>>7299366
This always looks like shit in pictures, but when I saw this IRL it took my breath away. It's fucking stunning.

>> No.7299393

>>7299367
The problem I have is that everything can be considered art but claiming things that you participated in very little and claiming it is 'yours' is pathetic.

>> No.7299409

>>7299353
>i dont understand

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>>7299274
>>7299262
>>7299256
>>7299251
>>7299246

usually these threads are good, thanks mate.

>> No.7299507

>>7299370
You're right. The boiling anger I feel looking at his shitty artwork is an emotion. Got me there.

>>7299375 >>7299409
Modern academia has rendered you braindead. Enjoy your self-masturbatory Twitter-grade minimalism and "dadaist" hipster culture.

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Bruegely

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>>7299507
>waaah stop liking what I don't like
>waaah I'll insult you and derail the thread

Please, just shut the fuck up, read a book about the history of art if you haven't already (I recommend Gombrich) and post some paintings that you like. Getting so butthurt over six dumb pictures on a korean pedophile support forum is really childish.

>> No.7299564

>>7298525
too used to the moving image

>>7299353
it does have purpose though

>Three overlapping squares does nothing.

for you

>> No.7299568

>>7298512
Shouldn't the seashell actually be representative of the male genitalia since she was actually born from the union of the castrated testicles of Cronus with sea foam?

>> No.7299569

>>7299561
Gardner's Art through the Ages is the GOAT tbh

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>>7299561
You sound more angry than me tbh. Just saying a child could do what those guys are doing.

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>>7299573
Or a baboon incapable of human-oriented abstract comprehension.

>> No.7299585

>>7299573
i don't think a child could have created an artistic response to the gestural nature of abstract expressionism by doing something minimalist

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>>7299585

>> No.7299611

>>7299507
Ben Nicholson isn't minimalist.

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I've always liked this one.

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>> No.7299693

>>7299643
I really like to use it as an OP image, it captures the mood well when I'm asking lit about some ideological/philosophical dilemma.

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>> No.7299798

>>7299353
>Self-masturbatory
interesting

>> No.7300306

>>7299599
oh fuck off, now you're being purposefully stupid

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>>7298512

Lecture 11 Laughter-Loving Aphrodite
Classical Mythology
Professor Elizabeth Vandiver

https://archive.org/details/ClassicalMythologyvolume12